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SALES & DEALS

Steam has two new daily deals (both of the same franchise) as well as two new Midweek Madness deals;

• The first daily deal is The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition is 70% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/22320/The_Elder_Scrolls_III_Morrowind_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
• The other one is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, also 70% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/22330/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV_Oblivion_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
• And these are the Midweek Madness deals:
  • Return of the Obra Dinn is 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn/
  • And Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/560130/Pillars_of_Eternity_II_Deadfire/

Fanatical has a new bundle: the Tower Defense Bundle with 3 games at an 81% discount for the next 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/tower-defense-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS/EMULATORS

The Last of Us, God of War 3, LittleBigPlanet 3 and more run significantly faster now on the PC via RPCS3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/the-last-of-us-god-of-war-3-littlebigplanet-3-and-more-run-significantly-faster-now-on-the-pc-via-rpcs3/
A few days ago, we shared a video in which the RPCS3 showcased a number of games running on the PC via the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3. And today, we are happy to report that this PS3 emulator can run various games faster than before.
Whatcookie, one of the RPCS3 contributors, has managed to significantly improve performance in a lot of games that use Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA). This Anti-Aliasing method made use of the PS3’s CELL SPU cores to take load off the weak PS3 GPU to give it more time to push impressive visuals and was first used in God of War 3 back in 2010.
Whatcookie’s recent changes allow the RPCS3 team to patch SPU ELF’s directly. This allows them to patch multiple games, various game regions and versions without having to do them separately on a game-by-game basis. Sadly, the patch doesn’t work with every game that uses MLAA as some games load it in a way that cannot be patched yet.
For instance, the patch for The Last of Us, is actually one of those titles which cannot be patched with the new SPU Elf method. However, Whatcookie went ahead and patched the game specifically as well.
The following video showcases most of the PS3 games known to use MLAA that work with the patch. Some of the missed games include Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, which did see SPU usage decrease, however frame-rates didn’t change much. Motorstorm Apocalypse also saw a small performance improvement and probably a few more we missed.

You can now play as Geralt from The Witcher 3 in Resident Evil 2 Remake
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/you-can-now-play-as-geralt-from-the-witcher-3-in-resident-evil-2-remake/
A few days ago, we informed you about a mod that allowed you to play as Ciri from The Witcher 3 in Resident Evil 2 Remake. And today, we are happy to report that Wiwilz released a new mod, allowing you to play as Geralt in Capcom’s third-person horror title.
Contrary to the Ciri mod, it appears that there are facial animations for this Geralt mod. However, I’m not certain whether the lip-syncing is perfect here. For what it’s worth, the modder may add facial animations to the Ciri mod in a future version.
Furthermore, the mod will remove Leon’s head. This basically means that this mod is not compatible with the other DLC costumes, except Arklay Sheriff. Also, Geralt’s swords will stay on his back while wielding the knife.
You can download this The Witcher 3 Geralt mod for Resident Evil 2 Remake from here. Do note that you will need fluffyquack’s mod manager in order to install it.

GAMING NEWS

Here are 87 minutes of gameplay from System Shock Remake
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-87-minutes-of-gameplay-from-system-shock-remake/
System Shock Remake and System Shock 3 have both been in development for quite some time. These are completely different projects from two completely different development teams. Nightdive Studios, the developers of the remake, had a demo stream where they played through the demo. This is a special demo of a different pre-alpha build.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare January 28th Update released, fixes exploit, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-january-28th-update-released-fixes-exploit-full-patch-notes/
Infinity Ward has released a brand new update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. According to the release notes, the January 28th update fixes an exploit in Ground War via ATV. Moreover, it brings some weapon balance tweaks.

Destiny 2 Update 2.7.1 released, improves performance, fixes bugs, combat tweaks, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/destiny-2-update-2-7-1-released-improves-performance-fixes-bugs-combat-tweaks-full-patch-notes/
Bungie has released a brand new update for Destiny 2. According to the release notes, Update 2.7.1 improves performance when receiving certain messages from the server. Moreover, it improves performance in both PIT OF HERESY and GARDEN OF SALVATION.
>> Sadly, it also brought a nasty problem. You can read more on the second news post.

The creative director of Watch Dogs: Legion talks to BBC
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/the-creative-director-of-watch-dogs-legion-talks-to-bbc/
The game’s creative director Clint Hocking has given an interview to Journalist Marc Cieslak inside the game. Both of them were digitally scanned into the game’s engine as you can see in the video at the end of the article.